Dr Paul Kennedy
Lecturer in Spanish and European Studies
1 West North 4.23
Email: p.t.kennedy@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 3849
Profile
Dr Paul Kennedy joined the Department in 2000, having previously lectured in the Department of European Studies at Loughborough University. He graduated from the University of Sheffield and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Spanish Socialist Government of 1982-1996 at Cardiff University.
After gaining a postgraduate qualification in Technical and Specialised Translation, he worked as a linguist specialist in Spanish and Russian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1989 and 1993 and was awarded a Robert Schuman Scholarship by the European Parliament’s Research Directorate in Luxembourg in 1996.
He is currently writing a book for Manchester University Press on the Spanish Socialist Party.
Research Interests
His research interests focus on contemporary Spanish history and politics.
Teaching
He teaches several units on the undergraduate degree in Spanish and International Management, is responsible for the Spanish to English translation component of the MA in Interpreting and Translating and contributes to the Department’s postgraduate Euromasters course.
Publications
Publications include contributions to Social Democratic Parties in the European Union, eds Robert Ladrech and Philippe Marlière (1999), the journal Parliamentary Affairs (2003) and Spanish Political Parties, eds David Hanley and John Loughlin (2006).
Book/s
Kennedy, P. T., 2008. Contemporary Spain. London: Palgrave. (Contemporary States and Societies)
Kennedy, P. T., 2008. The Spanish Socialist Party and the Modernisation of Spain. Manchester University Press.
Book Sections
Kennedy, P., 2009. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party: continuity, innovation and renewal. In: Callaghan, J., Fishman, N., Jackson, B. and McIvor, M., eds. In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and Modernisation. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Kennedy, P. T., 2006. The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE). In: Hanley, D. and Laughlin, J., eds. The Political Parties of Spain. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 46--73.
Articles
Kennedy, P., 2010. Book Review: Nigel Townson (ed), Spain Transformed: The Late Franco Dictatorship, 1959-75. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 87 (5), pp. 693-694.
Kennedy, P. T., 2007. Phoenix from the Ashes. The PSOE Government under RodrÃguez Zapatero 2004-2007: a new model for social democracy? International Journal of Iberian Studies, 20, 187--206.
Kennedy, P. T., 2003. Spain: Exhaustion of the Left Project? Parliamentary Affairs, 56, 99--111.
Kennedy, P. T., 2001. Spain's Third Way?: the Spanish Socialist Party's utilisation of European integration. Journal of South Europe and the Balkans, 3, 49--59.
